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	Tubal Uriah Buzz Butler
		Uriah Butler became a strong supporter of the pro-worker efforts then being made by the former captain of the British West India Regiment, Arthur Andrew Cipriani and joined the La Brea branch of Captain Cipriani's Trinidad Labour Party.
		Butler, who was sought frantically by the police, went into hiding after the turmoil but gave himself up on September 9 th, 1937.
		He formed the Butler party and at the general elections of 1950, he of course fought in the oil belt and duly won the seat to represent St. Patrick West in the Legislative Council.
	www.pantrinbago.com /TubalUriah1.htm (832 words)

	Tubal Uriah Butler
		Butler told his listeners that unemployment and low wages were the work of the evil white men who controlled the colony, above all the oil magnates.
		Butler was the catalyst for the 1937 riots which ushered in modern Trinidad.
		Butler was in Britain for much of the period 1950 - 1956, and his movement was decisively defeated in the 1956 election.
	www.caricom.org /jsp/projects/personalities/tubal_uriah_butler.jsp?menu=projects (880 words)

	dictionary - Tubal Uriah Butler
		Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler (1897-1977), was a Grenadian-born preacher and labour leader in Trinidad and Tobago.
		With the outbreak of World War II in September, 1939, Butler was re-arrested and detained for the duration of the war.
		Butler is looked upon as the founding father of the Oilfields Workers' Trade Union (OWTU) and is honoured with a statue in Fyzabad, the town in which the strikes began.
	www.medicalrace.com /dictionary/Tubal_Uriah_Butler (103 words)

	National Heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1937, Butler, who incidentally never advocated strike action unless all other avenues of negotiation had failed, organized a sit-down strike that was to prove a catalyst for the development of the labour movement in years to come.
		Butler, a price on his head, went into hiding, but eventually surrendered to the authorities; he was tried, convicted of sedition and sentenced to two years in prison.
		Butler served on the Legislative Council from 1950-1961; he ran unsuccessfully for the Federal Elections in 1958 and again for the General Elections in 1961.
	www.knowthecaribbean.com /trinidad/nationalheroes.htm (3358 words)

	Trinidad and Tobago - HISTORY
		Tubal Uriah Butler, a fl Grenadian who had been expelled from the TLP for extremism, emerged as the leader of the fl oil workers, who were the best paid and most politicized laborers on the island.
		Butler called for racial unity among fl workers and organized strikes, heading a highly personalized party that was known as the "Butler Party." Although the British labeled Butler as a "fanatical Negro" during the 1930s, Trinidad and Tobago has since recognized him as a man who sensitized the common man to the evils of colonialism.
		Butler, who had been detained throughout the war, was released from jail and campaigned for the Legislative Council, but he was defeated by Albert Gomes, a trade unionist of Portuguese descent.
	countrystudies.us /caribbean-islands/39.htm (1872 words)

	TriniView.com - Butler - a leader born to fight
		An emigrant from Grenada, Butler worked in Fyzabad where there was a large Grenadian population, and he became involved in the workers' disputes.
		He appealed to the emotions and the existing prejudices, and it was through his Baptist style and socialist vocabulary,that he entrenched himself as the catalyst for industrial actions in the oil districts in June 1937.
		While the police were taking Butler in custody, the crowd he was addressing, now angered by the police's actions, stormed the podium and "rescued" Butler.
	www.trinicenter.com /more/Butlerabornleader2.htm (580 words)

	Tubal Uriah Butler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On June 19 1937, a strike in protest of working conditions, wages, racism and exploitation began in the oilfields in the southern Trinidad.
		The Labour riots of 1937 resulted in turmoil throughout the oilfields.
		In the 1956 General Elections the Butler Party only won two seats.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tubal_Uriah_Butler (401 words)

	The University Of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago
		Butler was as essential for the growth of trade unionism as Rienzi.
		Butler was the motivator who through religion and humorous demagoguery could gather the crowds and threaten the state whilst Rienzi was the meticulous organiser, remaining behind to pick up the pieces and blend them into a coherent whole.
		Both these leaders recognized their mutual interdependence and it was under this joint leadership that this country saw its richest period of Afro-Indian unity out of which the trade union movement was born and later in 1946 there was the achievement of universal adult franchise.
	sta.uwi.edu /uwitoday/2005/april/rienzi.asp (3757 words)

	Trinidad & Tobago
		Tubal Uriah Butler, a fl Grenadian who had been expelled from the TLP for extremism, emerged as the leader of the fl oil workers, who were the best paid and most politicized laborers on the island.
		Butler called for racial unity among fl workers and organized strikes, heading a highly personalized party that was known as the "Butler Party." Although the British labeled Butler as a "fanatical Negro" during the 1930s, Trinidad and Tobago has since recognized him as a man who sensitized the common man to the evils of colonialism.
		Butler, who had been detained throughout the war, was released from jail and campaigned for the Legislative Council, but he was defeated by Albert Gomes, a trade unionist of Portuguese descent.
	www.onlinelearning.net /instructors/smurr/LatAm/Carib/trin&tbgo.html (10094 words)

	Tubal Uriah Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Butler's militant, confrontational style was increasingly at odds with the other leaders of the union, who were more interested in negotiated agreements with the government.
		In November 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, Butler was identified as a security risk because of his refusal to countenance bargaining strategies, and was imprisoned until the end of the war.
		In November 1961 Butler was a member of the official delegation that traveled to England to discuss confrontational reform with the British governement.
	members.accessbee.com /tnklbnny/tubal.uriah.butler.html (414 words)

	Tubal Uriah 'Buzz' Butler Biography butlera.html
		Tubal Uriah 'Buzz' Butler, also called 'Supreme Chief Servant,' was a Grenadian whose active trade union work in Trinidad earned his assessment as a 'national hero' by the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG).
		Butler's long history of trade union work in Trinidad paralleled the journeys of Grenadian men to Trinidad who became oil workers and lived in the oil district of Fyzabad.
		Butler's speech from the dock, 9 December 1937, is a quotation taken from the edited records of the Supreme Court of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, concerning the 1937 trial of Uriah Butler and subsequent appeals from the book 'Butler versus the King: riots and sedition in 1937,' edited by W. Richard Jacobs:
	www.thegrenadarevolutiononline.com /butlera.html (1465 words)

	25th Anniversary of the passing of Butler
		Butler was a genuine grassroots person who took on the might of Colonial England and the local ruling classes.
		Butler was associated with the Oilfields Workers Trade Union and his British Empire Citizens and Home Rule Party, but his most memorable efforts was his leading of the June 19th 1937 revolt general strike on behalf of the Trinidadian people, which also had a ripple effect throughout the Caribbean.
		June 19th in commemoration of that Butler led event has now been made the public holiday of Labour Day, and although sick and bed ridden in his latter days, he remained defiant to the end.
	www.trinidadandtobagonews.com /forum/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/219 (295 words)

	Story
		Butler had come out of hiding on 27th September 1937 in order to give evidence before the FORSTER COMMISSION, on the undertaking by the Governor that he would be free.
		Butler's view - and that of the workers - was the opposite.
		Butler himself was detained once again, on the pretext of his being a danger to the war effort.
	www.owtu.org /story.htm (15387 words)

	response re-evaluate retrospect: 2006-06-18
		Butler was detained by the colonial authorities from September 9, 1937 to May 1939.
		With the outbreak of World War II in September, 1939, Butler was re-arrested and imprisoned for the duration of the war.
		Butler was arrested after the labour riots of 1937 and imprisoned until 1939.
	ankhkara.blogspot.com /2006_06_18_ankhkara_archive.html (1633 words)

	AfricaSpeaks.com - Afrikan Option - Caretakers of Colonialism and the illusion of Independence
		In the decade of the 1930s, that light shone in the personification of Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler and in the decade of the 1970s, we saw the emergence of Makandhal Daaga-who instilled a sprit of change.
		We must acknowledge the fact that both Butler and Daaga despite contesting elections, never held the commanding heights of government; therefore, they did not have access to the nation's Treasury, but the masses benefited more from their contributions than any other political leader.
		Butler brought his people and by extension the nation out of the dungeons of colonial exploitation and the remnants of slavery that still existed on our land; to the point where our ancestors aspired to, and eventually achieved independence within 30 years.
	www.africaspeaks.com /afrikanoption/2004/caretakers_of_colonialism.html (2485 words)

	NACLA Digital Archive - Focus on Trinidad
		...Tubal Uriah Butler, an oil worker and a Baptist preacher, brough his message of "deliverance from toil and suffering" to all sectors of Trinidad's working class, and by the late 1930's his movement was leading hunger marches, demonstrations and general strikes which rocked the entire country...
		...Due to his identification with the Butler movement and his "dislike for the policies of the OWTU leadership," Weekes refused to associate with the union during his early years in the oil fields...
		...BUTLER mental differences between Butler with his strong worker indentification and advocacy of confrontational tactics and the OWTU leadership with its collaborationist tendencies, both Butler and Rojas stifled the development of democratic unionism by maintaining strong personal control over the rank and file...
	archive.nacla.org /Summaries/V10I8P14-1.htm (14362 words)

	Uriah Butler Highway - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Uriah Butler Highway is one of the major north-south highways in Trinidad and Tobago.
		The highway is named for labour leader Tubal Uriah Butler.
		This road or road transport-related article is a stub.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Uriah_Butler_Highway (98 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Naipaul: greatness and ungraciousness - Monday \| December 17, 2001
		The picture of the protagonist, Harbans, clad in British finery, coat, gloves and all, reminded me of the first time I met Tubal Uriah Buzz Butler.
		One day, a shiny chauffeur-driven car stopped and I was astonished at the sight of a bearded, fl man in the back seat wearing a hat of some furry, grey material, scissors-tail coat, white gloves, sparklingly polished shoes and a cane.
		Harbans and Butler are both intertwined in my mind as twin pinnacles of political parody, with life imitating and outdoing art while, in the context of today's politics and political leaders, validating it.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20011217/cleisure/cleisure3.html (865 words)

	STRIKERS VILLAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The people who settled there in 1947 were loyal supporters of labour leader, Tubal Uriah 'Buzz' Butler, who had organized a strike by workers against the foreign owned oil company called United British Oilfields of Trinidad (UBOT).
		This monument of Butler, with a lantern in his right hand and a Bible in the left, is located at the entrance to the village where some 2,000 persons live on lands to the east of the Borough of Point Fortin and north of the Old Southern Main Road.
		Samuel Waldron, 72, one of the remaining few who had accompanied Butler on the journey for better working conditions, and later emerged as a self-taught concrete sculptor, was responsible for the monument.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /Places/places_Strikers_Village.html (665 words)

	Report
		It was not until the arrival of Honorable Uriah Tubal Butler on the political scene that attitudes towards the Shouter Baptists began slowly to change.
		Honorable Butler was himself a deeply religious man and closely tied to the Spiritual Baptist religion.
		These included Honorable Albert Gomes, Honorable Uriah Butler, Honorable Raymond Quevedo (the calypsonian, Attila the Hun), the Honorable Sinanan brothers and the Honorable Audrey Jeffers.
	www.n2consulting.com /brochure.htm (5717 words)

	Brief History and Present Realities of Grenada labor
		Butler became a Baptist preacher during retirement but it was his advocacy on the behalf of oil workers that made him a household name.
		However, a notable shortcoming of the Butler riots, noted by historians, was the lack of a clear working-class objective to challenge the status quo.
		The Butler riots would continue to aspire generations of struggles in the region [Hart: 1998, p78].
	www.bigdrumnation.org /notes/historyGrenadaLabor.htm (6687 words)

	Evan Arnold Rees, Adrian Cola Rienzi, Lionel Seukeran, Ram Kirpalani, V S Naipaul, Rudranath Capildeo, Janelle Penny ...
		Trinidad and Tobago's national labour hero wanted to see what he termed "a better and a brighter day." Butler was born in 1895 in Grenada.
		He was a tremendous fighter for human rights and he wanted to educate the workers about their rights.
		On 19th June 1937, Butler was involved in a major riot at Fyzabad Junction.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /Biography/GENERAL_BIOGRAPHIES.htm (1247 words)

	Raceandhistory.com - The Long Road to Freedom
		When Emancipation Day was once again declared a public holiday in 1984, Lancelot Layne and John Cupid had Point Fortin and Port of Spain literally on fire with flambeau processions through the streets.
		Tribute in songs, dance, drama and mime was and is still paid to Aimé Césaire of Martinique, Cudjoe of Guyana, Simon Bolivar of Venezuela, the Caribs of St Vincent and Belize and Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler of Trinidad and Tobago.
		The contributions of these Caribbean emancipators shine like beacons in spite of the disaster of enslavement and suppression in one way or the other over the past 900 years.
	www.raceandhistory.com /historicalviews/freedom.htm (219 words)

	Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday : newsday.co.tt : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When, for example, the late Tubal Uriah Butler had headed the British Empire Workers and Citizens Home Rule Party there had never been any doubt as to who was leader.
		If he is, however temporarily, then he is following, unwittingly, should he be controlling the UNC from England, the path taken years earlier by Tubal Uriah Butler in 1947, and later by Dr Capildeo.
		I wish to remind that in the same way this is expected of Basdeo Panday, both Butler and Capildeo returned from England to lead their respective parties.
	www.newsday.co.tt /commentary/0,40179.html (671 words)

	Discover Trinidad and Tobago: Trinidad - Ten places to visit
		While Fyzabad is a bustling town with elements of both an industrial area and quiet country life, its real significance is to the visitor with an interest in the history of Trinidad and Tobago.
		The infamous Charlie King Junction is the site where a policeman (Charlie King) was killed when he tried to arrest trade union activity and national hero Tubal Uriah “Buzz” Butler on June 19, 1937.
		Butler, who was actually Grenadian by birth, led the fight for workers’ rights in the late 1930s.
	www.meppublishers.com /online/discover/trinidad/index.php?pid=2037 (1500 words)

	In The Firing Line: Hollow call for labour unity - TnT Mirror.com
		According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American poet [1803 – 1882]: “The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps is because man is disunited with himself.”
		Although I agree with the principles of the labour movement of years gone by, of the struggle initiated by Adrian “Cola” Rienzi, Tubal Uriah “Buzz” Butler and the likes, I find the present-day labour movement ineffective, factional and somewhat visionless.
		I listened to the speech by Errol McLeod and found it to be promising everything and delivering nothing to workers.
	www.tntmirror.com /friday/2006/jun23/column02.htm (739 words)

	Presse 12.September
		Trade unions, political parties and people's organisations were born out of these struggles.
		Amnesty International honours the memories of people like Tubal Uriah "Buzz" Butler, Elma Francois and Adrian Cola Rienzi.
		However, we are here today because we have over the past two or three years become increasingly alarmed at the failures of the government to administer properly the criminal justice system.
	www.amnesty-caribbean.org /Trinidad/PresseSeptember12.html (952 words)

	Trinidad Jottings on SilverTorch
		In the 1930s the island was used as a detention center for prisoners, among them Tubal Uriah Butler.
		You are missing one really interesting part of the history, especially because it coincides with Buzz Butler’s NI experience.
		When he was brought to Nelson for the second time it was already a detention camp.
	www.silvertorch.com /jottings/trinjots.html (3947 words)

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